Several species have a good sense of smell, unusual for raptors, and are able to smell the dead they focus upon from great heights, up to a mile away.

* October 11 – Several members of the first voyage of Christopher Columbus witness an unusual light.

Several families have unique traits, such as the inverse number marking of Tanoan, the lexical affixes of Wakashan, Salishan and Chimakuan, and the unusual verb structure of Nadene.

Several of the glyphs, mostly upper-case forms, are unusual and cannot ( yet ) be accurately represented in Unicode.

Several of Shakespeare's comedies, such as Measure for Measure and All's Well That Ends Well, have an unusual tone with a difficult mix of humour and tragedy which has led them to be classified as problem plays.

Several researchers observing animals ' ability to learn set formation tend to rank dolphins at about the level of elephants in " intelligence " and show that dolphins do not have any unusual talent with problem solving compared with the other animals classed with very great intelligence.

Several of the Chinese species, such as White-fruited rowan ( Sorbus glabrescens ) are popular for their unusual fruit colour, and Sargent's rowan ( Sorbus sargentiana ) for its exceptionally large clusters of fruit.

Several have fireplaces aligned with windows and it is not unusual to find a double flue exiting out of the wall, generally with the exits aligned parallel to the prevailing wind to improve the updraft on a relatively short flue ( e. g. Upholland Windmill, Lancashire, where the fireplace is at second floor level ( First floor in British English ), and the doors and windows are aligned to the cardinal points of the compass ; or Much Wenlock windmill, Shropshire, which has double flues of uncertain purpose rising from the middle floor level.

Several weeks later, on 30 November 1949, Evans informed police at Merthyr Tydfil that his wife had died in unusual circumstances.

Several of these albums feature his unusual compositions, his most famous being " Mephistopheles ".

Several of the car's features, unusual at the time, have subsequently become mainstream such as the headlight flasher (" found on many Continental cars ") and the variable speed windscreen wipers.

Several unusual events have occurred in Ward End over the years:

Several unusual events occurred in the department's history.

Several years later, amidst unusual and perilous circumstances, Louis, his sister, mother, and adoptive father ( Beowulf ) along with Carlos and Carlos ' girlfriend, Feather Filip, secretly and illegally emigrated from Earth to Fafnir.

Several of the Barclay family were noted for unusual strength.

Several village sites are distinctive as they contain the remains of unusual structures called " council circles.

Several novels, films, and television series have speculated regarding the United States presidential line of succession and in what ways it would be implemented in unusual circumstances.

Several clay sealings presenting an unusual nebty name together with Sekhemkhet ´ s horus name were found at the eastern excavation site at Elephantine.

Several unusual for the time performances took place on the stage: Die Walkure by Wagner, Sadko by Rimsky-Korsakov and Mefistofele by Boyto.

Several elements of Gondwana biota are present in New Zealand today: predominantly plants, such as the podocarps and the southern beeches, but also a distinctive insect fauna, New Zealand's unusual frogs and the tuatara, as well as some of New Zealand's birds.

Several explanations have been offered for its unusual name ; perhaps the most common is that it comes from a childhood nickname of the founder, Gao Gui You 高贵友, given to protect him from bad luck.

Several games were won by Surrey after Fender used unusual bowling combination or tactics, instructed his batsmen to get out quickly, or declared an innings closed at an opportune moment.

Several musicians therefore became members of Izrael, including jazzmen, which was unusual for a reggae band.

Several species are single-stemmed understorey palms, an unusual growth form.

Several condensed matter systems are being studied with potential applications to quantum computation, including experimental systems like quantum dots, SQUIDs, and theoretical models like the toric code and the quantum dimer model.

Several free and open source animation software applications exist as well.

Several companies produce joysticks for industrial applications using hall effect technology.

Several applications of the dineutron in nuclear reactions can be found in review papers.

Several types of plasmid addiction systems ( toxin / antitoxin, metabolism-based, ORT systems ) were described in the literature and used in biotechnical ( fermentation ) or biomedical ( vaccine therapy ) applications.

** Several Apple iPhone applications

** Several Android applications

Several companies developed and sold applications for Symbolics Genera.

Several research groups have independently developed simulation software that agrees well with experimental findings in a wide range of engineering applications, including adhesive powders, granular flow, and jointed rock masses.

Several " add-in applications " can be " attached " and activated, extending Symphony's capabilities, including a powerful macro manager, a document outliner, a spell-checker, statistics, various communications configurations, and a tutorial, which demonstrates Symphony usage by running macros.

Several workers demonstrated optically pumped VECSELs, and they continue to be developed for many applications including high power sources for use in industrial machining ( cutting, punching, etc.

Several applications rely on the use of double vacuum flasks, such as NMR and MRI machines.

Several corporations, including Fujifilm, ICI, Kodak, DNP, Mitsubishi, and Sony, market desktop size units as stand-alone printers and for print kiosk and photo booth applications.

Several studies are found in the scientific literature, mainly investigating the effects of deposition parameters on electronic quality, but practical applications of amorphous silicon carbide in commercial devices are still lacking.

Several companies have attempted to have a version of GH for use in pigs ( porcine somatotropin ) approved by the FDA but all applications have been withdrawn.

Several versions of the protocols are in widespread use in applications such as web browsing, electronic mail, Internet faxing, instant messaging and voice-over-IP ( VoIP ).

Several large organizations use SpiderMonkey to manage their JavaScript for front-end applications.

Several important applications of astrography, including astronomical spectroscopy and astrometry require greater dimensional stability than film could provide, and continued using plates until digital imaging improved to the point of supplanting photochemical photography for these purposes.

Several companies have created technology to use the acoustic features of cell phones to support mobile payments and other applications that are not chip-based.

Several applications may be required to saturate the existing wallpaper.

Several other web applications, such as weblog software, also incorporate forum features.

Several reclamation certificate applications for oil sands projects are expected within the next 10 years.

Several haptics APIs have been developed for research applications, such as Chai3D, OpenHaptics, and the Open Source H3DAPI.

Several live CDs are dedicated to specific type of applications according to the requirements of thematic user communities.